The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

For me, every day is a new thing.